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The Road Map is reason for hope, but the real dangers lay ahead and even an optimist must be wary. Extremists - Israeli, Palestinian and American - all remain committed to scuttling this still too feeble attempt to restart negotiations on the road to peace.

A weekly roundup of news, announcements, articles and other items of interest. In this issue: Mickey Z. on Dubya's visit to Auschwitz, Bill Vann on the growing Iraqi resistance to US occupation, and Diana Johnstone on how Yugoslavia marked a turning point in US empire.

KOBE is an online hate organization targeting Arabs, Muslims, and Anarchists. KOBE calls for genocide against Muslims, the creation of concentration camps in the US, and cyber warfare against dissident websites.

For all of you who can't make it out to Humboldt County, California, for this summer's campaign of non-violent civil disobedience and direct action, and still want to help save some of the last Old Growth Redwood and Douglas Fir forests left on Earth, we have the $10 a month plan:) Can we get 100 participants from Boston?

Reprinted from Young Spartacus pages of Workers Vanguard No. 803, 9 May 2003.
A leaflet distributed on the East Coast by the Open City Anarchist Collective of the Northeastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists (NEFAC), titled “Anarchists Against the War” (15 February), stands out from all other anarchist antiwar statements we have come across in that it takes a side in the U.S. war on Iraq.

Revolutionary thinkers have been saying that the age of vanguardism is over for most of a century now. Outside of a handful of tiny sectarian groups, it's almost impossible to find a radical intellectuals seriously believe that their role should be to determine the correct historical
analysis of the world situation, so as to lead the masses along in the one true revolutionary direction.